david carey jr. is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives: Xkib’ij kan qate’ Qatata’ (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2001) and has published articles in Latin American Perspectives and the Latin American Research Review. His current book project, Engendering Mayan History: Mayan Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875–1970, is forthcoming from Routledge Press.
jordana dym is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Skidmore College, with a Ph.D. from New York University. Her research on the role of municipal politics in Central America’s early nineteenth-century state formation has culminated in a monograph, From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759–1839 (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2006), and Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America (Colorado Univ. Press, 2006), a book...
